Adjustable harness-tree



( N0 Model.)

W. 0 MILLER. ADJUSTABLE HARNESS TREE.

No. 444,762. Patented Jan. 13, 1891.

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UNITED STATES \VILLIAM O. MILLER, OF QUINCY ILLINOIS.

ADJUSTABLE HARNESS-TREE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 444,762, dated January 13, 1891.

Application filed May 2 '7, 1 8 90.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, \VILLIAM O. IlIILLER, of Quincy, in the county of Adams and State of Illinois, have in vented certain new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Harness Frees; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a partof this specification, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

In a contemporaneous application filed by me on the 19th day of May, 1890, Serial No. 352,375, I have shown, described, and claimed an improved adjustable harness-tree consisting, essentially, of a check-hook plate having loops or eyes at its sides, combined with metal side plates provided with hooks which engage with the loops or eyes of the check-hook plate and form a hinged connection therewith; and my present invention has relation to further improvements whereby the tops of the side plates, as well as in some instances the checkhook plate, are enabled to be covered with patent-leather without interfering with the proper adjustability of the parts and without exposing toview unsightly joints at thehinged portions.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a check-hook plate and a side plate embodying my invention; Fig. 2, a perspective view of the check-hook plate detached and with its patent-leather top removed. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view taken through the check-hook plate and side plate. Fig. 4.- is a cross-sectional view through the check-hook plate, taken on the line 0; as, Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a view of a modification of the check-hook plate in which,instoad of transverse bars for holding the patent-leather top, short lugs or projections are employed.

The letter A, Figs. 1 to 4-, represents the check-hook plate. It is provided at its sides with loops or a for receiving the hooks of the side plates with which it co-operates, and it is further provided with front and rear vertical flanges a d, between which the patent leather top B is adapted to be received, and also with cross-bars c 04 which extend trans- Serial No. 353,351. (No model.)

versely over the top B and operate to hold the ends of the same down.

0 is the check-hook, the shank of which is adapted to pass down through an opening in the top A and a corresponding opening in the body of the check-hook plate and to receive a securing-nut c on its lower end, as shown in the sectional view of Fig. 3. Upon examination of Fig-3 it will be seen that the parts are so contrived as that the patent-leather top is securely held in position and prevented from displacement in either direction, While at the same time a space D is left beneath the outer ends of said top to receive the upper end of the patent-leather top on the side plate, as will be presently explained.

E is the metal side plate, provided with a hook E, which engages with the loop a. of the check-hook plate, as shown in Fig. 3. This side plate is also provided with flanges e 6, between which a patent-leather top F is illserted, the same being confined by the t'erret Gin the usual manner. The upper end of the leather top of the side plate extends up under the contiguous end of the top 13 on the check-hook plate, from which it results that free adj ustability of the parts of the tree is not interfered with, nor is the patentleather injured or damaged, as would be the case if a continuous piece of patent-leather were employed, extending from the side plate over the hinge connection onto the check-hook plate.

Instead of forming the cross-bars a a on the check-hook plate for holding down the ends of the top 13, short arms or lugs might be employed, as shown at (L3 a in Fig. 5.

The patent-leather top on the side plates in every instance extends over the hinge joints between the side plates and check-hook plate and beneath the top of the check-hook plate, thus forming a neat joint between the parts without injuring the patent-leather and without interfering with the requisite free dom of motion of the parts of the tree.

I claim as my invention In a harness-saddle, the combination, with the check-hook plate having the loops or eyes at the sides, the upwardly-extending flanges at front and rear, the cross-bars, the leather overlying said plate and passing beneath the on the said plate, and the tenets for holding cross bars, and the check hook passing the leather on the side plates in position, subthrough said leather to hold it in place, of stantially as described.

the side plates having the hooks engaging lVlLLlAM O. MILLER. said loops or eyes on the check-hook plate, lVitnesses:

the leather overlying said plates and having 0. S. DORINGER,

its upper ends confined beneath the leather 1 J. S. FRY. 

